Call for Applications: RADF Community Grants Program (Round 1) – Australia

The Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) is delivered as a partnership between the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and eligible local councils across the state.

RADF promotes the role and value of arts, culture and heritage as key drivers of diverse and inclusive communities and strong regions. RADF invests in local arts and cultural priorities, as determined by local communities, across Queensland.

RADF is a flexible fund, enabling local councils to tailor RADF programs to suit the needs of their communities.

Objectives

• Provide public value for Queensland communities.
• Build local cultural capacity, cultural innovation and community pride.
• Deliver Queensland Government’s objectives for the community.

Priorities

• Employment of professional artists and artsworkers.
• Benefit to community.
• Necessity for the project or activity to exist.
• Urgency for project funding.

Funding Information

• Assistance of up to $2,000.

Eligible Costs

• Artist fees
• Workshops
• Consultant fees
• Marketing costs
• Materials
• Venue hire
• Equipment hire
• Professional artsworker fees
• Travel
• Accommodation

Eligible Projects

• Local artists, arts workers or members of community organisations can request funding for professional skills, career and capacity development to attend workshops, training, mentoring or conference opportunities.
• Groups and organisations can also apply for funding for small scale community arts projects.
• Individual emerging or professional artists, arts workers or groups can apply for resources to support a specific arts project. Resources, such as art materials, promotional support, etc. may be eligible, but capital items are ineligible.

Eligible Activities

• Skills development activities:
  • Individual artists and artsworkers living in Bundaberg Region seeking to attend professional development activities with recognised arts and cultural peers or organisations. Assistance is available for registration, reasonable accommodation, and travel costs for activities.
• Creative projects and activities that reflect the cultural vitality of the Bundaberg region:
  • Community groups seeking to engage professional artists or artsworkers to work with them on developing their arts practice or to run arts development workshops or community activities. Support is available for travel, accommodation and fees associated with employing professional artists or artsworkers.
• Creative activities that promote civic pride, strengthen belonging, build social cohesion, encourage interaction, and facilitate inclusion:
  • Being creative in the community, supporting creative activity in public spaces. Arts and cultural activation and programming that enlivens spaces and promotes cultural vitality. Activities that assist their community to engage with, activate or transform local spaces and places in a way that highlights a locality’s unique identity.
• Improving health and wellbeing through the arts and using the arts as a tool for positive social impact:
  • RADF will support activities/projects that can improve the health and wellbeing of people within their community by creating a sense of belonging and connectedness. Individuals, groups and organisations proposing accessible and inclusive arts and cultural activities where artists and communities work together to create specific outcomes that build community resilience and wellbeing within marginalised or minority groups.
• Programs that cater for or are led by young people (applications open to individuals from 12 years of age):
  • To support young people to pursue creative career pathways. Projects and programs run by young people for young people.
• Projects that explore cultural heritage and diversity through stories from their community:
  • Collecting and presenting community stories. RADF will support activities/projects that explore the diversity of their community and the possibilities around how they collect and present stories from their community.

Ineligible Activities

• Projects/activities that commence before the application is approved.
• Applicants who have failed to acquit previous RADF grants.
• Projects for which arts workers are paid less than the recommended industry rates.
• Murals.
• School based arts activities except where those activities form part of broader community cultural development processes or are part of professional arts development.
• Framing or freight only a small proportion of these costs may be covered as part of presentation costs for significant exhibitions.
• Entertainment – funding is not available to pay for entertainment for events, unless there is a developmental aspect included, e.g. musicians performing at a community event run a series of developmental workshops for community members prior to the event.
• Competitions and eisteddfods.
• Publishing costs.
• Recurrent funding a project or activity occurring repeatedly without significant variation.
• Operational expenses are ineligible under RADF including wages for permanent staff and office expenses.

Eligibility Criteria

• Individual professional artists, artsworkers or arts organisations must meet the following requirements to be eligible to apply:
  • Persons under 18 are eligible to apply but must nominate an auspice organisation, or a person over 18 to administer the grant on their behalf;
  • Reside in the Bundaberg Regional Council area or demonstrate a strong justification of how the project directly benefits the Bundaberg Region;
  • Current Public Liability Insurance;
  • Have satisfied all requirements and acquittals of previous RADF and/or Bundaberg Regional Council funding;
  • No outstanding debt with Council.

Assessment Criteria

• High Quality
• Strong Impact
• Sustainable Value
• Community Benefit
• Community Interest & Local Support
• Budget
• Risk Management

For more information, visit Bundaberg Regional Council.